Cyrea melaneura (Mulsant) Canepari & Gordon & Hanley, 2016

Canepari, Claudio, Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2016, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XVII: Systematic revision of the genera Cyrea Gordon and Canepari and Tiphysa Mulsant (Hyperaspidinae: Brachiacanthini), Insecta Mundi 2016 (486), pp. 1-180 : 24-25

10. Cyrea melaneura (Mulsant) , new combination

Cleothera melaneura Mulsant, 1850: 562 .

Hyperaspis melaneura: Crotch 1874: 216 : Korschefsky 1931:192; Blackwelder 1945: 447.

Description. Male lectotype. Length 3.1mm, width 2.1 mm; body oval, convex. Color yellow except clypeal apex narrowly brown; pronotum black except anterolateral 1/3 and narrow anterior margin yellow; scutellum black; elytron with suture narrowly black on apical declivity, black area widened at apex and extended laterally along elytral apex ( Fig. 49 ), ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrites, metafemur, and abdomen black. Head punctures large, separated by a diameter or less, each puncture as large as 4 eye facets; pronotal punctures equal in size to head punctures, separated by 1 to 2 times a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than to about a diameter; metaventral punctures twice as large as on elytron, separated by a diameter or more medially, becoming larger and contiguous toward lateral margin. Clypeus weakly emarginate apically, lateral angle abruptly rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus short, about 4 eye facets long, angled forward, abruptly rounded apically, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, sides rounded, basal and anterior angles abruptly rounded, basal margin without bordering line. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, deeply foveolate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle 1/2 width of protibia, outer margin smooth ( Fig. 49 ); sponda deep, as wide as angle. Carinae on prosternal process widely separated at apex, convergent, joined before prosternal base, single carina extended to base. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite rounded, extended to apical margin of ventrite at middle, then broadly forward to lateral 1/5 of ventrite; ventrites 1-4 with sparse, long pubescence, punctures sparse medially becoming dense laterally; 5th ventrite not depressed medially, medially grooved, groove with short, dense setae, apical margin deeply emarginate medially, surface densely punctate; 6th ventrite short, narrow, not depressed in apical 1/2, apical margin slightly emarginate, densely pubescent, surface smooth, glabrous. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured. Genitalia with basal lobe shorter than paramere, asymmetrical, narrowed to rounded apex; paramere Unm, wide ( Fig. 50 ); sipho robust, strongly curved, without lateral alae, basal capsule large, inner arm short, wide, apically truncate, outer arm longer than inner arm, with large accessory piece, basal border deeply sinuate ( Fig. 51, 52 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type locality. Colombia.

Type depository. BMNH. (lectotype here designated).

Geographical distribution. Known only from the Colombian type.

Specimens examined. 1. The lectotype specimen

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern is somewhat similar to that of C. languida , but that species is entirely pale dorsally and lacks the black scutellum and apical sutural area of C. melaneura .

The male lectotype is the only specimen examined, and is labeled “Type (orange bordered disc)/ Colombie (green disc) 5171 (blue disc)/Melaneura. Muls. Colombie (green paper)/Named by Mulsant.” The Buquet collection (BMNH) is the only one listed by Mulsant (1850). This specimen may be the only one Mulsant had, but it is not possible to be certain. Therefore it is designated the lectotype.

Figures

Figures 49-64. Cyrea spp. 49-52) Cyrea melanura. 49) Habitus. 50) Phallobase ventral. 51) Sipho. 52) Enlarged siphonal apex. 53-58) Cyrea emiliae. 53) Habitus. 54) Phallobase ventral. 55) Phallobase lateral. 56) Sipho. 57) Enlarged siphonal apex.58) Female genitalia.59-64) Cyrea annette. 59) Habitus. 60) Phallobase ventral.61)Phallobase lateral. 62) Sipho. 63) Enlarged siphonal apex. 64) Female genitalia.